‘Black Panther’ director detained after being mistaken for bank robber l GMA 

He's busy he probably doesn't have time for court

@@jamesjameswhattheladyssayl7657 I'm sure he didn't have time for the banks shenanigan's either but it happened... Many of these black celebrities only care about being black when it benefits them. What possible response or outcome could he have been so ok with...

@@robertwright4220 You're wrong on that. You just did what the world does.... judging a group of people when you can't possibly know all of their thoughts or intentions. Pathetic.

@@snirks8635 Your incoherent response and inability to understand nuance and context is pathetic! Not to mention the fact that your deficiency or inability to understand my comment caused you to do what you accuse me of.

@@robertwright4220 I get what you’re saying, but not everything that happens to us is an opportunity to cry about how oppressed we are. Maybe he was taught to keep calm and obey authority because it gives him a better chance of surviving a police encounter? That’s what my parents taught me when we had “the talk” that other black kids get when they reach a certain age. Point is no one really knows why he was so calm, but the issue was resolved and the director has moved on according to his statement.

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Brilliant! 🤣👏

Crist you're ignorant...

Exactly

Exactly

The teller probably panicked because they looked like they were in disguise, still if only the teller just checked his account first before overeacting

Exactly

@@cypr7120 oh, please!!

Imagine if the bank teller turned out to be white. There would have been some serious firings.

The issue was resolved maybe at the request of Disney . The movie that he is currently directing is set to be release in November. They are hoping that it's another billion dollar movie. So they want to squash all negative publicity involving anyone involve in the making of this movie. They might has paid him to accept his humiliation and let it go.

Why? For doing their job????

@@errolm8313 that wasn't their job....you do realize they effed up, right? That's the whole point of this situation. They effed up their job and should be held accountable.

I guess @Kevin Fletcher realized his blunder and deleted his response to me. It's for the beter. I assume he's been _"enlightened"_ after discovering the facts on how the bank employees effed up. Good for him.

@@deem6077 she should only have been held accountable if she violated policy or the law. None, of which were mentioned.

All she had to do was pull up the man’s account. If the money was in the account- GIVE HIM HIS DAMN MONEY SO HE CAN LEAVE!!! I would have wanted her job. Period.

@@brookewoody2374 What if he was the victim of someone asking him to withdraw a lot of money? I would have been scared for him because you never know who was waiting out in the car? Anyway he says he has resolved it with the bank to his satisfaction and moved on, so should we.

@@pamelajudithrwanyarare8429 When you're "scared for" someone you don't have police pull out guns and arrest them! She could have asked him if he was okay. That's what a normal human being would do.

@@pamelajudithrwanyarare8429 Your scenario would equate to you thinking someone was being raped and you call the cops to arrest them for prostitution. You don't accuse someone you think is in an unsafe situation of being the criminal themselves.

@@MrJeditwinz whatever. He says the bank has settled with him to his satisfaction and has moved on, so should we. Guy is on set making money, I suggest you do the same. Be blessed. 🙏

Yes that’s one bank I wouldn’t never put my money in. Credit Union is the way to go in my opinion.

Tell your aunt to withdraw all of his money and give to a bank that respect people.

Credit Union.

Sorry to hear that

So heart breaking to go through such a thing. Can't believe people still do this in our modern 21st century. What do they gain from behaving so evil.

This.

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And he had his ID. Asked for a specific amount. I mean, come on. I totally agree with you.

@@godsbabi1 • This is absurdity. Debit cards do not prove identity. Photo ID only works if a mask is not on a person’s face. Take off the mask/dark glasses, then show photo ID. Many people with 70% facial features strongly resembles others. Using his standards, if scammers were to wear his type of clothing, wear a mask, dark glasses, to cover their faces/ have stolen debit/ID hands a teller a written note, scammers/con-artists would clean out his bank account within days. According many, the bank should NOT use good judgement to safeguard his money. This is phony and “RACE BAITING.” The teller did the RIGHT thing. Call POLICE

@@matthewchrome5144 there are protocols the teller could have followed before calling the authorities. She did not do the right thing. He showed his ID and they could have easily asked if he can show his face... perhaps the bank manager could have called him back (happens in a lot of these situations when customers request over $10,000.) If you are saying I'm absurd, I respect your opinion. Yet, I'm knowledgeable about the process. I stand on what I said.

She did what Bank of America wanted her to do. BoA doesn't care about small account holders, and having a small account holder arrested is a risk they are willing to take. A $12k withdrawal is small potatoes, but small amounts like that are what is typically stolen during a bank robbery. Had he tried to withdraw $100k, a manager would have gotten involved and he probably wouldn't have gotten arrested.

@@conchobar she should be fired period end of story this the wrong job if your going to be scary

@@conchobar A call to the police to intrude the bank vicinity should involve a manager. With respect to the situation, it should have been the manager who called, not the UNTRAINED teller. The manager was and is useless.

This only happens to black people

@@junkjournaldavao you don't need "training" to call the cops lmao.

All they had to do was check his bank balance. Probably had 100000 in acct

Why didn’t he just talk to her? Why just keep pointing to a note? He should have talked to the manager first. The transaction could have been done in an office and no one would know he was leaving with $12,000 on him.

@@christinacascadilla4473 my guess is he's done it before without issue. I would have asked for the manager but maybe manager was the one who agreed to call the police. Idk. Either way I don't think the police should have been called. It was his account.

@@alexisbyrd5571 it would have been handled better all the way around.

@@christinacascadilla4473 well maybe going forward, he'll handle it differently. It's his life. He's worth $25 million, so I'm sure he's smart enough something out.

Exactly! It be your own ppl sometimes. Dang.

Exactly

Thank you because the bank is supposed audit accounts by name and cross-reference them with famous people, celebrities, politicians, etc, and offer them a "special" program Private Banking. Meaning as soon as she pulled up his account she would have seen a flash come across her screen that he was "SPECIAL". And technically he wouldn't have even been in the bank because a Private Banking customer has an assigned person to handle all their banking needs (personal Private Bankers) including delivering him that money! They do everything for customers, making credit card payments, ordering free checks, free money order,s or cashiers checks, paying mortgage payments for them. I mean WIPE their AXX!

She needs to be demoted to bag checker, talking about her gut. Lady you were not hired for your feelings. Check the ID and the system, but she gut checked her feelings first? She needs to go back to 8th grade and graduate high school a second time.

You can't train away stupidity.

A new job. If she is shook up by someone giving her his banking information, she doesn't need to be there.

Glad we could benefit from your retail banking expertise on this case

They are already trained, and some people just aren't meant to do this type of work. The level of competency displayed here is incredibly clear they are not fit for this job.

When black people buy into they own white ideal about black men an poverty. Jim Crow

@@Codacoli Did you mean reading and understanding a hand written note?

They knew exactly what they were doing.

@@jillwyzywany4980 😂😂

Exactly!

@@jillwyzywany4980 get out of here clown

The problem is that the bank teller was foolish. He gave her his account #, PIN and ID while asking for the money to be counted discreetly. That's all was needed. Then she said she just had a feeling something wasn't right. That feeling was her basic ignorance. Just like Jill W. with her comments above.

@@jillwyzywany4980 most crimes committed against white people are by other white people.. what is your point?

The bank teller was literally black...

The Israelites talked about how Black people will go against each other and have a evil heart towards one another. These are part of the curses in the Bible we need to come back to God’s law, statues, and Commandments, which we have never done in the Old Testament.

that's what i would have done before the lawsuit

Yep yep

I definitely would have moved my money and closed the account. 💃

And what does that accomplish? They are all one in the same.

I like this comment so much and wish Mr. Coogler and all black patrons of BoA would move their money. Martin Luther King Jr showed us our economic power since that time we haven't flexed that muscle. Maybe we should. No protest. No politicians. The very next time any organization shows us disrespect. Let's just move our business elsewhere?

This is what I’m saying! I worked as a teller and got notes every day. Checks wrapped in notebook paper, notes on the withdrawal slip, etc., usually about how they want their cash.

Well, there is one thing relevant to who he is. If the person wasn’t a successful Hollywood film director, would he have been treated the same. You heard Ryan Coogler - and this is no dis to him, it’s what I would have said in this situation if I were him - if you just run my name, you’ll understand why you had no reason to do all this. That reason he was referring to: he’s a record-setting movie director with no need to rob a bank. But what if he was just a regular middle class to upper middle class guy who was smart enough to build a sizable savings and had to withdraw a large some for some reason? Would the cops have said basically “no problem” after they realized who he was, and Ryan Coogler said he’d be happy to continue the convo with them, but there was no reason to keep everyone handcuffed, and asked that he and those with him be unruffled before the discussion continued? (The entire body cam footage is available here on RU-vid, that’s where you’ll see everything that happened including this. That’s also where you’ll see a ton of people saying “who hands a teller a note and then walks away with a lot of money?” -these folks think another customer of the bank, not a teller called - I reminded them that even though it’s old school with ATMs & internet-only banks, but that “note” has a name, it’s called a withdrawal slip.)

Bank of America needs to train their employees better on how to address each and every possible situation!😮‍💨😮‍💨😮‍💨😮‍💨😮‍💨

@@sueathomas69 yep, the key word is training for me. Sounds to me like the young lady wasn't properly trained on proper protocol for large transaction amounts, she probably has never had a client ask for money like that before, I give her the benefit of the doubt on that. She's probably fairly new to this and doesn't want to lose her job. Just in the past few weeks I've had fraudulent activities happen at my job on my watch and in one of them I was put in the position of having to tell on other Black people. And I didn't want to do it but I had to.

@@paradoxical_taco if I was the bank teller and Quentin Tarantino walked in with black glasses a black baseball cap and a surgical mask and I didn't recognize him I would think it's a creepy pilled out looking White dude feening for drugs tryna get me to empty my drawer.

Lol. “IQ IN THE NEGATIVE!” Right!!

OMG yes!!

Technically, he didn't fill out the withdrawal slip correctly. You don't write on the back of the withdrawal slip. You fill out the front of the slip.

@@aec5210 He did fill out the front, but wrote a note on the back of the slip. smh

@@weare1634, glad to know that. I think the note on the back made her suspicious. Everyone makes mistake.

@Weltall8000 , No. His jacket said "fear God". He's probably a devout Christian that's why he acted calmly.

'Fear God' is a brand 😅😅

@@oyinkansolaoladipupo , Thanks for educating me. 😊 But, he may also be a Christian who fears GOD. I don't think an atheist would buy that brand.

Maybe it's the first time he withdrew over 10k? It's common sense that handing a note will get you in trouble. Duh!

@@oyinkansolaoladipupo 😂

EXACTLY!

Thay were all black!

@@toddc1193 Read a book 🤦🏾‍♂️

@@toddc1193 that’s the point

Lol huh you be surprised how white washed even black people can be to thier own race

@@malikedmond8398 that's their fault. Lol. The irony of this whole thing is like a comedy show

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That person was the teller. Literally all she had to do was pull up his information and see that he had more than $12k in the account.

@@Pete133 agreed.

That comment turned into a sitcom in 3 seconds - held a straight face until I reached an IQ higher than dirt part.

@@Pete133- Ikr. How dumb of her to jump to such a big conclusion. Really stupid. I betcha her silly ass considered this a “precautionary measure”. Smh

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All the race fishers to the front line

All bankers and police men at the scene were black. Nice try tho👍

@@juniorjr.427 black ppl can still be suspicious of other black ppl b/c of negative stereotypes that white ppl created (aka internalized racism)

That's exactly true. He was labeled a bank robber. UGH!

If he was white what do ya think would have happened, would it have happened

Exactly, not the first time.

Yeah....he wanted to ...LIVE!!!

It's a shame that we need a talent for that just to survive.

proud?

Proud for that?! That's when you know a person is used to bad behavior that acting normal is such an achievement! 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Go watch Fruitvale Station and let me know if he feels the same way smh

EXACTLY ‼️‼️‼️

100%

EXACTLY THEY SUCK ALL AROUND!!!!!

Who gives a fuck

She got the supervisor and the supervisor called the police. It's just ignorance all around!

He wear black ski hat, sunglasses and pass a NOTE!,and wouldn't speak..he maybe should call the branch manager before withdraw that amount cash..and can't blame the cop and the clerk too ......US crime happen Everyday,every minute by what color?should blame his own race..

@@Untilthenstaykind he's done this plenty of times before. He didn't want to say how much money he wanted outloud. You know how many times people getting followed from the bank? He's a Hollywood director, of course he wants to be discreet about it. Do you want everyone around you knowing how much money you take out of the bank?

@@Untilthenstaykind showing proper ID, bank card and using a withdrawal slip is all you need to withdraw money. If wearing any of those things you mentioned or writing a note is somehow a crime given all of those other factors please let us know what the penal code is. Not to mention it was JANUARY and he is a multimillionaire director. Two things can be inferred from that. It was probably cold, hence the hat, and he did not want to be recognized which was the reason for the sunglasses. And in case you don't know what "internalized racism" is let me tell you...SHE WAS TALKING ABOUT THE PERSON OF HIS RACE.

Everyone involved is a minority....HOW is it racism?!?! And I agree, dude had on sunglasses, hat pulled down, passing a "note".... don't care what race you are that's suspicious if you didn't deal with it before....period

@@Gary-er3om Candace Owens is black too and she lives entirely by the white supremacist agenda. That doesn't eliminate racism from the picture.

Exactly! He gave you his ID, Bank of America card, and gave you written instructions that were “non-robberish”….shame on her for not reading and checking accounts with the info she received.

When black people buy into they own white ideal about black men an poverty. Jim Crow

She didn't know his account balance because she never bothered to verify his identity or account. She asked for his ID and immediately called the police...

@@brandon9638 He said he put his card in and entered the pin, so she had to see his account once he did that.

Facts.. She prejudged him.🥺

She made it sound like a BLK MAN is suspicious if he has that kind of money to withdraw in one transaction.Guilty for being BLACK.

Even your own people will judge you too. It’s all programmed that way. To be bias of your own people and expecting them to be robbers.

Yeah..IMAGINE THAT.. VICTORIOUSLY ABUNDANT ‼️‼️‼️

Wys!!!

it has always been like that to avoid the person from running away while they do the investigation

Yep, if it was me, I would be changing my bank the second the incident was over.

obviously she was employed to act based on her feelings... tell me about unprofessionalism

We, Black People should have our own bank!!!!

The very least.

FIRED!

She did and even the dumb ass manager gave her the "okay" to call the cops.

And ask for a specific amount of money. They just want you to stuff as much money in as possible.

@Kevin Fletcher who’s playing the victim in this scenario? The bank teller was set to call the police while at the same time leaving the Hollywood director in the lobby with the impression that she retrieving his money. When it was taking a bit too long he was asking around to the rest of the staff “what’s the problem, why it’s taking so long?” And the rest of the staff remain quiet unwilling to get involved knowing the seriousness of this threat of a potential bank robber and that’s when the police enter the room to sort this misunderstanding out.

EXACTLY! I'll even add that ppl REALLY need to think before calling those on the scene with the power to use deadly force. This could've gone in a different way that resulted in the injury or death had power hungry or coward police had arrived instead.

Dwl

exactly..what threat was that to call police,,,,it's silly how people are defending this foolishness

That’s how White police officers brain works around Black men.

I have a better understanding of how to deal with that situation than those officers. Not 1 fucking ounce of training. It's the will to help people.

You’re a fool.

I'm glad you mentioned the manager. That dude just proved how useless his job really was. If anything it should've been his call to get the cops involved, not the teller who was "too scared to turn the corner".

When black people buy into they own white ideal about black men an poverty. Jim Crow

Who robs a bank for a specific amount of money at all?

and to be withdrawn from your account! It was on the note.

It's a lot of money for a homeless man.

Right!

It's not a'lot of money. I made that every 2 months and it was not enough to cover my bills. I was looking for a part time to keep up with cost of living.No fool would rob a bank for 12 grand.Thats pitifull.

…and that’s a precursor.. it just may happen again, too

....in a flash!!!

That’s right!

why he bank with them anyways? Bring your money to a black owned and run bank so you dont have to deal with racist.

@@Pepe-dq2ib The bank teller and bank MANAGER were both black. It's not always a race issue ffs. The teller is merely just an incompetent.

She stated that she didn't read the name on his ID. That defeats the purpose of asking for identification. Bank of America payed a 2 million dollar lawsuit because of racial discrimination in its hiring practices. This female slipped through the cracks.

sounds like she didn't read or understand...she's not bright

It's not always a damn race issue. From the teller, to coogler, to even the officers, they're all black. Why is race always brought up when it comes to any negative situation involving a black person. It could be incompetence, ignorance, miscommunication to literally any reason. But black people love to always make it about race.

@@jimbocarnero4417 it’s still a race issue. Internalized racism is real. That’s why so many non white people get brainwashed to wanting to be white and bleach their skin. You ever seen Boyz n the hood? Remember the black cop? Shit like that. That’s just a Hollywood example but it’s very real

It was all black people working there it was a black lady that called them stop being obsessed

You are spot on! Many of these so-called black celebrities only want to be black when it benefits them. I don't look to celebrities for anything but at the same time in a situation like this it's like he almost must have the responsibility to respond accordingly. Accepting some private apology doesn't cut it...

Profiling people of their own race!? 🙄

Believe me when I say, there definitely are those whom are threatened by the use of grammar and punctuation. Sadly, I work with some. 😐😖

Rofl - well, these youngsters today seem to have their own "grammar and punctuation" I'm pretty glad I'm old school. lol

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Oh, don't forget finger pointing too. He was using his finger to direct her attention to the note, that might be why she didn't feel right in her stomach.

@@zeusonolympus123 photo ID that matched the name on the account. Also account ID then we should all get arrested when going to the bank with that much proof of who we are. Bank teller will say that the women was in the wrong. Why? Cos he didn't want to be rib, when counting larger amount of money you don't do it open. I only did work experience for 2weeks and I learnt that there. It's for the customers safety

Apparently it's sus to go to your bank in other parts of the country. 😂

her job's on the line, she started blaming her unborn kid....

was his picture that bad lol!!..shameful! ..she has my stomach turning

@@isuriadireja91 yeah you know how black women and accountability goes...

@@MrRealbrotha 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🤪

Robbing your own money is a crime now

Right..damn!!😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡

it was just that he was a black man withdrawing a lot of money. that doesnt happen very often in Amerikkka so when it does happen something doesnt feel right.

Especially when people with hearing problems write notes ALL THE TIME when at the bank.

@@rastalife5002 she a dumb and ignorant

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